This article was published on April 11, 2012

Secure your Facebook data from friends’ creepy apps in just 30 seconds


Secure your Facebook data from friends’ creepy apps in just 30 seconds

Worried about the security of your data on Facebook as the social network goes into apps overload? Don’t be.

This 30 second chart [click to enlarge] from Jeff Elder, marketing director at Storify and a social media expert in his own right, shows how easy it is manage which of your details apps from friends have access to.

Online privacy is a huge issue of concern for many Internet users and Facebook, as the world’s most popular social network by some distance, is the chief platform over which many angonize over the safety of their, often considerable, amount of personal data.

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However, securing your information on Facebook isn’t as difficult as you might think. Thanks to its numerous privacy blow-ups and the FTC breathing down its neck for the next twenty years, Mark Zuckerberg’s company has been forced to make its privacy controls more transparent and easier to use.

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